▪ I. pard1
(pɑːd)
Also 4 parde, (5 perde).
[a. OF. pard, part, parde, ad. L. pard-us (male) panther, a. Gr. πάρδος (later formation from πάρδαλις fem.), panther, leopard, or ounce, an Eastern word; cf. Pers. pārs panther.]
A panther or leopard. (Now only an archaic or poetic name.)
| a 1300 Cursor M. 11629 Leon yode þam als Imid, And pardes als þe dragons did. 1382 Wyclif Jer. v. 6 A parde wakynge on the citees of hem. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxxiii. (1495) 834 The perde varieth not fro the pantera, but the pantera hath moo white speckes. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 150 Then, a Soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the Pard. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Def. xxiv. 240 As mute..as a..Dogg bitten by a Pard. 1725 Pope Odyss. iv. 616 Sudden, our band a spotted pard restrain. 1817 J. F. Pennie Royal Minstrel ii. 409 Has the fierce mountain pard assail'd the flock? 1820 Keats Ode Nightingale iv, I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards. |
| b. Comb. 1821 Shelley Adonais xxxii, A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift. |
▪ II. pard2 slang, chiefly U.S.
(pɑːd)
[Abbreviation of pardner.]
A partner, mate.
| 1872 ‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It (1900) II. vi. 68 He was the bulliest man in the mountains, pard! 1883 Longm. Mag. Nov. 97 Here's success, pard! 1887 A. A. Hayes Jesuit's Ring 300 Don't go back on your old pard. |
▪ III. pard
obs. f. part; obs. f. pared, pa. tense of pare v.